last of the legends
"Death and demons haunted the anguished works that made Ingmar Bergman a film-making legend."
"Bergman passed away Monday at age 89, at home on the Swedish islet of Faro…"
‘In 1988, Woody Allen said in a 70th birthday tribute to Bergman that he
was "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since
the invention of the motion picture camera.""
— IHT
"Yet I know that what I tell myself is self-deception and an
incessant anxiety calls out to me: What have you done that will endure?
Is there a single metre in any one of your films that will mean
something for the future, one single line, one single situation that is
completely and absolutely real?
And with the sincere person’s deep-rooted inclination to lie I must answer; I do not know, but I think so."
—
"I never need to concern myself about present opinion or the judgment
of the posterity. I am a name which has not been recorded anywhere and
which will disappear when I myself disappear; but a little part of me
will live on in the triumphant masterwork of the anonymous craftsmen. A
dragon, a devil, or perhaps a saint, it does not matter which."
—Bergman
